Destroy Rock & Roll

Quite decent album, very enjoyable! 4/5

rating system goes like this 5 - favourite 4 - save 3 - like, not enough to save 2 - not for me 1 - hate

Destroy rock & roll by flailing it with wet noodles.

Музыка напоминает подборку для торгового центра или магазина одежды: аккуратная, приятная, современная для своего времени, но совершенно не цепляющая. Она не раздражает, однако практически не даёт ни одной причины остановиться и вслушаться. Мелодии, атмосфера и продакшн быстро растворяются в общем фоне.

All the edge of a flat soccer ball. All the talent of an under 5 soccer team playing the World Cup. All the excitement of paint drying. I’m not opposed to bombastic statements and grand claims. And yes perhaps in 2004 rock and roll needed destroying. Just be good at it.

How about “gently prod rock & roll?” The first half is enjoyable, the second half is decidedly meh.

Edm back to back

I found it boring and repetitive and I dislike house music in general, so for me it would have been 2 stars, but my boyfriend quite enjoyed this snoozefest, so let it be three stars for him.

It’s definitely an electro-house album made in the wake of Discovery (not a bad thing to my tastes), but it does have its own really nice often-mellow and downtempo sound that plays real well on a relaxed Sunday evening. Moving the samples up into 70s soft rock and 80s pop and making them sit more as features of the songs feels like a stepping stone for a bunch of later music and an absolute takeover of the radio of my youth (again, not necessarily a bad thing to me).

Like saying "this is the new COD destroyer" back in 2012

A basic electronica music album, no song from this album made me give it a chance

Very intriguing I could definitely see some of these songs on a study playlist but that aint me no more

Some moments of this ruled and really reminded me of some of the best of deadmau5; most of this was repetitive zone out music.

the first and only album release by scottish producer mylo, released on his own self-made record label and largely produced using a secondhand computer from home. mylo later came out and said that the album wasn't created as one solid, planned out project, instead simply compiling his music work from the past few years before the album's release into one little cd. it got steady success in the united kingdom... rather remarkable for a guy doing everything solo. this album surprisingly has a bit going for it, at least to me. i always approve songs that use samples but they do it in a way where the soundbytes go hand-in-hand with the instrumentals to the point where it all mixes together. a lot of people might think this album is kinda uninteresting, or it might be a little repetitive, but believe me, i've heard so much repetitive electronic music, especially tracks released after 2000, and this one doesn't get me irritated or disengaged. it's very sensible electronic music. music which can appeal to a lot of people and could fit well with at least a dozen places and social gatherings. it has a lot of heart!

Enjoyable

Really liked this. I remember the singles when they came out. I include Dr Pressure in there too. I always liked Sun worshipper as well. This just made me quite happy while I listened so that was a nice touch. Also, I worked at an airport for a while and I met Mylo about the time this came out and got his autograph. Might still have it. I wonder what happened to him?

When I think of the singles from this album, I really wouldn't have expected them to be part of something so thought out and characterful until I heard this album today. Really fun, really provoking and really surprising. Great stuff

I swear techno is just a competition to see who can make the most boring, repetitive music imaginable. I’ve heard it’s more fun live, but there’s no way in hell I’m paying modern concert ticket prices for this shit. I’m tired of pulling these albums.

Electro stuff. Not bad, not great

Not really understanding why this is on the list. Not bad for background music but very repetitive. I don’t mind electronic music but I feel there are better albums that represent

Enjoyable electronica music by an artist that wasn't on my radar. I'm no aficionado of the genre, but this feels competently made and easy to consume. Add it to the playlist of easy background music for working along with several others from this list.

Yep, sure is EDM. Seems like a pretty solid example of the genre, but it's not my thing. I think rock & roll is safe, at least from this.

Pleasant surprise, listened a couple times and could see this hitting the rotation

After being exposed to house music in the radio in his early childhood, Mylo commited at age 22 in 2002 while working as a Journalist for the BBC in Glasgow. Mylo heard a christian fundamentalist sermon that was sampled in his first song. "Destroy Rock and Roll." Destroy Rock And Roll it's his first and only record until this day, due to undisclosed legal reasons. It samples many 1970's and 1980's soft rock songs that Mylo used to hear. He rejected Labels like Wall of Sound and Echo to form and create his own one: Breastfed. Many copyright owners of the original tracks demanded at least 50% of the rights to the new tracks. Because of this, many of the tracks on Destroy Rock & Roll, were actually made re-recording the original music that was employed in the first place. A more cheaper option that saved some of the disagreements. A groovy, chilled out, and somehow mellow record it's what we can find here. A wide selection of samples that converge in this massive and eclectic blend of House and Electropop that produced 7 singles. Peaking at #26 in UK Albums Chart and #10 in USA Dance/Electronic Albums. Named as the record #21 of Greatest albums of the decade by the Magazine, Resident Advisor, this one it's an album that says to your face "Buy me. You should have a copy of me at your house"

I didn’t destroy my sense of rock and roll. It did the opposite and now I am hoping I get a rock and roll album today. Another boring techno album

J'ai grave aimé c'était un peu entre Daft punk et Avicii en plus planant

J'ai bien aimé, des sonorités sympa

Gjesp! Dette er ikke dårlig, det bare engasjerer meg overhodet ikke. Det er, om ikke verre, så ihvertfall like ille. 3/10

Mylo? Ikke hørt om. Selv om hiten "Drop the Pressure" tydeligvis har vært svær nok til at jeg i det minste kjenner igjen låta. Hadde noe lignende kommet ut midt på 90-tallet ville jeg nok vært ekstatisk fan. Men fra 2004? Næh. Svært lite engasjert. Best liker jeg den litt Todd Terje-aktige "Muscle Cars".

Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll Prøver å tenke kva som var den siste heilelektroniske plata eg kjøpte og trur kanskje svaret er Basement Jaxx si “Rooty” eller Daft Punk si “Discovery”, begge frå 2001. Mylo var for meg heilt ukjent og eg ante ikkje kva eg skulle dykke ned i, men det er ikkje akkurat vanskeleg å sjå for seg at denne musikken kan fylle eit dansegolv. Fengande, er det. Og eg syns innflettinga av samples og popkulturelle referansar er veldig elegant løyst her. Låtane kjennes inspirerte - med fengslande melodilinjer over pulserande, house-aktige beats som kan feste seg som klister. “Drop The Pressure”, “In My Arms” og tittelsporet er alle knallbra, og slett ikkje aleine om det, sjølv om den duppar ned mot uinteressant til tider. Ikkje heilt “Discovery”, men betre enn “Rooty”! 7/10

I didn’t mind it (I knew a few of the tracks from somewhere) and there were some decent uses of samples but I found it lacked a bit of drive at times. Nice to have a bit of a break from the usual guitar stuff though.

It’s not groundbreaking by any stretch but it’s a decent listen regardless. There are some elements of more downtempo inspired chillout here that I think it is at its best when doing, where it is more evocative of someone like Mr. Scruff or Royksopp (‘valley of the dolls’, ‘emotion 98.6’, and other the other side of the spectrum much more uptempo traditional house songs that are catchy and interesting enough to be decent in their own right (‘musclecars’, ‘drop the pressure’). I really like the use of samples in this to enhance the songs, even though it probably led to Mylo getting bugger all royalties from it and then disappearing into oblivion thereafter.

I don't why everybody's ragging on this, because I rather liked it. As somebody who is already into this kind of stuff, I was having fun bopping my head along to some pretty infectious beats. What impressed me the most was the use of samples to bolster those mixes, as well as how it sounded like nothing else in the 2000s. It loses a star due to getting repetitive after a while, but it's still pretty good in my books.

Boring repetitive spoken word lists. Destroy rock and roll? I'd rather destroy whatever this is

A DJ and make it slow…I had no idea you could make this genre worse but here we are.

It’s probably good but I’m not much into house

6.5/10

I don't think that putting beats to already good songs is a must listen. But not entirely unenjoyable - just pointless.

초반에 꽤 좋은 노래가 있었는데 점차 노래가 아쉬워 지는 기분이었다. 그래서 평균을 내면 전체적으로 평범한 느낌이었다. There were some pretty good songs early on, but the quality seemed to decline as it went along. So, on average, it felt like an overall ordinary experience.

That was a fun ride. Never heard of the artist, certainly never heard the album. A light groove that had me bouncing in my chair a bit on a Friday morning.

Kind of boring

I fw this heavy

DNF. Not because its bad, more that is was just so bland and boring. Not sure how something this milquetoast could destroy rock & roll. And yes, I know, the title is tongue-in-cheek.

Another band I’ve never heard of. Decent enough.

First time through, I thought it was a 4. But it was good enough I wanted to listen again, and I liked the second time as much or more, so that’s reason enough to award a 5.

Why is this 2 hours? It's just bad club music.

Not particularly compelling or memorable. This list has too much 90s/00s electronica

Destroy Rock & Rock song has to be the dumbest song I've heard in a long time. Maybe it was supposed to be ironic?!? If so, it didn't pull it off, just sounds juvenile. The rest of the album was almost as bad.

A cool electronic dance project. Got that retro Y2K style to it and definitely has its charm.

It's good electronic music, the kind I like. I really liked this album.

Destroyed expectations and hit that peak early 2000s vibes

It's all quite pleasant, nice background music. In fact, now I think about it, the most fun I had with this album was spotting all the samples from other songs and recognising where they came from. Entirely inoffensive.

This is pretty good. I'm going to go to a record store and smash all their records because of how influential these lofi beats to study to are

Great stuff. Right up my alley! Gonna hafta roll this at the next party. Light 8

Imagine if you will, an alternate universe where Animal Collective decided to start making house music.

Fun driving music. Not sure it’s a must listen, but nice to have a different genre to break things up a bit.

An almost perfect soundtrack for a Friday night. It probably loses a lot on a Tuesday afternoon. It’d be a five star album, but the title track is unlistenable.

Destroy Rock & Roll....with boredom!

This was surprisingly pretty solid

I usually give electronic albums on here a bad rap because I find them too repetitive and boring, but I was really surprised to not find that with this one. I kept my interest all the way through. Really enjoyable and delightful listen.

To be honest, I was left feeling a bit puzzled after listening to this record. A bit of background: Mylo is a Scottish DJ who created this — his first and last — album using samples from 80s soft rock (a move that, judging by his career’s abrupt end, likely landed him in legal trouble). It all sounds quite pleasant; at times it resembles a video game soundtrack, at others it feels like driving a roadster down the highway on a warm but breezy day, and sometimes it evokes the vibe of an Ibiza club. I enjoyed it! At the same time, the music serves mostly as background listening, and I didn't really get the sense that I was listening to a cohesive album. You could drop any track or shuffle the order without changing a thing. It’s also worth keeping the list’s title in mind: this record certainly doesn't fall into the "must-hear-before-you-die" category. All in all, it’s neither good nor bad. It’s certainly not going to destroy rock & roll.

I really enjoyed this. I had heard a few songs before. I like the chilled flow of it and the tunes are well produced. Nice beats, skits and samples. Clever EDM and I love clever EDM

If you are going to title an album "Destroy Rock & Roll", it needs to be a great record. This isn't - it is merely competent. Having read up on the title track, I now realise the name is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the music itself fails to live up to the bravado. Ultimately, it wasn't for me. 1 "Valley of the Dolls" (3/5) 2 "Sunworshipper" (2/5) 3 "Muscle Cars" (2/5) 4 "Drop the Pressure" (2/5) 5 "In My Arms" (2/5) 6 "Guilty of Love" (2/5) 7 "Paris Four Hundred" (2/5) 8 "Destroy Rock & Roll" (1/5) 9 "Rikki" (2/5) 10 "Otto's Journey" (2/5) 11 "Musclecar (Reform Reprise)" (2/5) 12 "Zenophile" (2/5) 13 "Need You Tonite" (2/5) 14 "Emotion 98.6" (2/5) Total - 28 Average - 2.0 430/1001 228/430 albums reviewed were new to me.

One of my coworkers has been hacking up a lung for the last 3-4 months and refuses to go to the doctor. So we all get to listen to her constant coughing all day. That is preferable to this album.

This is the soundtrack to an 80s workout video. I can smell the Aquanet and see the pink leg warmers. Tony Little would be so screaming happy listening to this while crushing your abs on the Ab Blaster. Hard pass.

Late model techno bullshit.

Trash

I’m not an EDM listener, so I can’t gauge an album vs its peers. Every one just reminds of something I would hear in Ibiza. Having said that, it’s got a heck of a groove and a driving beat, and the title track of the religious cult leader listing all the “problematic” rock acts from 1985 was pretty amusing.

Thanks I hate it.

This was a delightful surprise, great ambient music while maintaining a pulse to keep me awake. I like the idea of jumping on a bike and leaving this dirt town behind me, I like the needless aggression on Drop the Pressure, and I like the video game aesthetics late in the album.

This may not have destroyed rock & roll, but it did surprisingly destroy some of my preconceptions of electronica music in delightfully pleasant ways. 4.5 stars, rounding down for the false advertising of a title track that is a terrible parody of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire".

I try not to be genrephobic but I'm so over all these electronic DJ's that made the list. Very few of them are interesting and I get very little out of them personally. 2/10

Pretty unremarkable

Waste of an hour. How are there so many albums like this on here. I know its subjective but i am genuinely curious how someone could make an argument that this is good art

I went to rate this and already forgot most of it. Just remember that one track where they listed artists. At least it wasn’t jarring.

Oh my - everyone surprised that this is the only album released by this group raise your hands. Yeah, no one’s surprised. It’s annoying and not terribly good, and well - ah, okay, here’s why they’re on this list; of course it’s another UK turd.

I’m not digging the house vibes, but other than that it’s close to a 4!

Honestly some good stuff.

I think this is my first 1 star. I couldn't handle listening to a lot of the songs when they cut in and out.

In order to harm my psyche, we have MORE British electronic music, this time from my ancestral homeland of Scotland. The Isle of Skye is one of those places that feels like heaven on earth. Literally. It feels as though it is actually in a different realm, slightly disconnected from the reality that you are accustomed to. Many of these locales exist, as the world is a vast and beautiful place. I find when I'm in places like this, my mind wanders to the people who live there. Is the effect of just how incredible their surroundings are lost on them, or is it something that shapes every moment of their lives? These thoughts emerge when I see an elementary school at the foot of an imperious cliff in the rocky mountains, or stop at a rural grocery store adjacent to a sprawling coastline. People form their normalcy in these places that are anything but normal. I wonder what sort of impact it has on the people who find this as their everyday life. Well, if it helped shape "Destroy Rock n' Roll" and its nauseatingly terrible synthesizers and eye-rolling samples, we need to evacuate these areas post-haste. Music that will be danced to in a pharmaceutical commercial, if it hasn't already. May Mylo guide those desperate actors to a big break after they break it down hardstyle for Garlique. 0 SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE: Nausea, vomiting, shingles (roof), a specific kind of Tourette's where you name muscle cars uncontrollably, stigmata, religious mania, WrestleMania, instantaneous death, delayed death (up to 100 years), mood ring immunity, and looking like you're animated into the cover of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

This is like when they need nightclub music for Hallmark movies. (ntm.)

neither particularly interesting nor particularly danceable.

Haven't heard of him. I don't know what I imagine house music to sound like but this is not a good example of house music. That Bette Davis Eyes sample on one song is terrible. And the next song has a 1 second sample of Prince's grunt from Kiss, what the hell. The guy learned about music yesterday and chose random bits of most popular 80s songs to sample. The titular song just confirms it because it just lists random artists like a teen who's just got into music and thinks they're cool and edgy. This album wasn't even unlistenable but it pissed me off 1/5

A lot of it sounds like music you would find in advertisements or video game menus, which isnt necessarily ment negatively. It more comes down to the fact that while there is enjoyment to be had, the album listening experience is pretty much the same as putting on a random Y2K themed youtube playlist for background noise while you work.

Bad video game background music with the occasional name of a rock band (if Weird Al is rock?) and swear word. Hold music mixed with those AI generated youtube playlists "to chill out to"

too repetitive

destroy yourself mylo

Not the worst thing ever, but it has an air of being The Bits Moby Rejected. Some of it would grace any dentist's waiting room.

Fav: Rikki L: Sunworshipper 1.5 I really want to meet the person who listens to this regularly but only be around them for like 5 minutes. Just doesn’t feel like much effort, thought or passion went into this one. Cover: 2 Name: 1 Falls so flat with the music behind it Minecraft Parody: Raid the Village “Pillagers gonna raid the village”

I don't remember much from it. Seemed just kinda generic. Not terribly obnoxious though. 2/5

This is just lesser (way lesser) Daft Punk. A few songs were ok, but none every reached the level of great. Another entry for the "Why is this on the list" pile.

*2004 *If actual instruments were used instead of electronica, there would be some good songs here. *This sounds like it could be produced at home with just a laptop… *It's kinda growing on me. Uh oh. *But there are also a number of songs that effects that go on way too long - the stopping and starting with Rikki for a full 2 minutes is nuts. And then the same stop/start effect in the next? Stoppppp it. RATING - 6/10

Some nice sounds in there but that's what you get with samples (sampling is easy) and many "DJ" albums. Not enough added to make it worthwile IMO. Not crap, just nothing special nor deserving a place on the list. Drop The Pressure is OK.

Okay I liked it, but you really have to be in the mood for this time of music. Creative dance music, very artful, but yeah. Not for all times or all moods.

𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 & 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘭 has plenty of good melodies, and Mylo has a real knack for making electronic music sound light, catchy, and immediately accessible. My problem is less with the album itself than with where it sits in the 1001 Albums experience. From the 1990s onward, the list contains so much British electronic music that another polished electronic record inevitably feels a little less special than it might in isolation. So this is enjoyable enough, and occasionally very good, but it never quite convinces me that it needed to be one of the chosen ones.

Album #195: Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pretty wonderful album, this. I don’t know about it destroying rock and roll. It’s a bit inconsequential for that. But it’s expertly produced, great-sounding, fun and just an enjoyable listen. I don’t know if it’s necessarily an album you need to hear before you die, but I’ve found there’s precious little electronic music on this list so far, so it’s always nice when something like this comes up. He’s mixing a lot of different styles. I’m not necessarily the world’s best at distinguishing between different forms of electronic music, but I can hear techno, I can hear acid house, I can hear drum and bass in some brief moments, and he mixes them all well without it ever losing its own particular identity. It’s a bit long, but these albums tend to be. But it’s an enjoyable experience for my drive to work. And it’s kind of getting slated in the reviews. It’s got a poor rating on the generator, and I think that’s a shame. There’s an awful lot of serious music on the generator, and rightfully so, but it’s nice to have a little bit of fun sometimes. The negatives are that I didn’t like the vocal samples throughout. I thought they were poorly used. But the instrumentation and the little melodic instrument samples, like the acoustic guitar on Zenophile 05, for example, is just class, and it’s really, really well done.

This is terrible. More recent techno crap.

not totally my taste, but a nice discovery. I could definitely put this on when I'm working and get a lot done!

4 sterne

Write rate this solely based on driving to the farmers market on a beautiful Sunday morning then it is a for sure five. Life’s not that easy though.